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  1. “While the Security Council’s support for regional mediation efforts will, hopefully, soon lead to political progress towards the resolution of the crisis, the Council has also a responsibility to take the necessary steps to reduce human suffering and increase the prospects for a political solution wherever possible. It is regrettable that the Security Council has so far failed to express itself clearly in that respect, but today’s debate should provide additional impetus for a Council product.”

    2021-03-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2021/250 (2021) · source

  2. “The Security Council must ensure urgent access to the region for humanitarian actors, an end to the communications blackout and an investigation into the reports of atrocities. Liechtenstein welcomes the agreement between the World Food Programme and the Government of Ethiopia on humanitarian access as well as the leadership shown by Ireland in the Council’s discussions. It should be the primary interest of the Security Council to ensure that its terms are fully honoured in order to prevent a worsening of the humanitarian crisis, and the worst-case scenario of a famine in the region.”

    2021-03-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2021/250 (2021) · source

  3. “Two thirds of all districts are pre-famine, an unconscionable state of affairs. Time and again we have seen the politicization of humanitarian access. To break the cycle of the conflict-induced food insecurity in Yemen, the Security Council must make humanitarian access its highest priority and not accept restrictions for United Nations and other humanitarian actors to safely and efficiently deliver assistance. The Council is credible in doing so only if it is ready to enforce its position. That is also a responsibility the Council has vis- à-vis the humanitarian actors on the ground, including the many dedicated United Nations staff. The reports on the conflict in the Ethiopian Tigray region are extremely concerning, both from a humanitarian and an accountability perspective.”

    2021-03-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2021/250 (2021) · source

  4. “In the light of the far-reaching legal tools that the Security Council has at its disposal, it should urgently revisit its hostile stance S/2021/250 S/2021/250 against international justice efforts and use its authority to ensure that the parties to conflict respect international humanitarian law. The conflict in Yemen stands out as one of the most massive food security crises. The United Nations has tirelessly stressed the need for compliance by all sides with the fundamental rules of war, as enshrined in the Geneva Conventions, to prevent a humanitarian catastrophe. Instead, the war has been characterized by the utmost disregard for international law. Hostilities continue to be fuelled by foreign intervention, and their consequences are borne by the Yemeni people, 80 per cent of whom are now in need of humanitarian assistance.”

    2021-03-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2021/250 (2021) · source

  5. “The arbitrary denial of humanitarian access is a war crime, as is the starvation of a population, which has been included in the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court. In the past 10 years, the Security Council has consistently failed to hold the perpetrators of atrocity crimes in Syria to account, with devastating effects in terms of civilian suffering. The work of the General Assembly-mandated International, Impartial and Independent Mechanism is thus of key importance and today provides the most direct pathway to justice, in addition to national prosecutions such as those undertaken recently in Germany.”

    2021-03-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2021/250 (2021) · source

  6. “At the same time, it is evident that hunger continues to be a used as an instrument of warfare and that those responsible are relentless in their efforts to sustain the suffering in a climate of pervasive impunity. Humanitarian access continues to be restricted or blocked arbitrarily by the Syrian authorities in a systematic abuse of the consent principle for cross-line aid deliveries. Therefore, the remaining cross-border humanitarian channel is a lifeline for 3 million people that the Security Council must preserve, ideally complemented by further cross-border channels in accordance with the humanitarian needs on the ground. Should the Council fail in its responsibility to ensure that assistance can be provided to all those who need it, the General Assembly should be prepared to take complementary action.”

    2021-03-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2021/250 (2021) · source

  7. “Only two weeks ago, the Security Council was briefed about the harrowing fact that 60 per cent of the population of Syria — 12.4 million people — does not have regular access to enough safe and nutritious food. In Syria’s north-west, children suffer at unprecedented levels from hunger and its grave health consequences. Ten years of war by the Syrian authorities against its own population also represent 10 years of the Security Council failing the Syrian people — a singular and lasting stain on the Council’s legacy. While a direct consequence of the armed conflict, the current humanitarian crisis in Syria no doubt has complex causes. They need to be addressed in the context of a comprehensive political solution to put Syria on the path to peace, prosperity and justice.”

    2021-03-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2021/250 (2021) · source

  8. “It is a strong case in point that the Council must adopt a comprehensive concept of security to implement its mandate effectively. It also shows that the Security Council is part of an overall United Nations system aspiring to realize the generational promise enshrined in the Sustainable Development Goals — a perspective that the Council would benefit from adopting more comprehensively. The potential for the Security Council to address food insecurity as a root cause of conflicts is vast and mostly untapped. At the same time, the Security Council is ultimately responsible to address conflict-induced food crises by ensuring humanitarian access to those in need. The Council’s track record in that respect is, unfortunately, also very limited.”

    2021-03-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2021/250 (2021) · source

  9. “Liechtenstein welcomes you, Madam President, to the United Nations and to the presidency of the Security Council this month. I applaud you for your decision to focus the Council’s attention on the complex interplay between conflict and hunger, and I am grateful for the invitation to participate in this debate. While we eagerly wait for the Security Council to restore established levels of transparency, inclusion and accountability — as other Charter bodies are making strides to do — we also hope that, in the meantime, contributions like these will help inform the Council’s deliberations and decisions on a topic that is of concern to all of us. Resolution 2417 (2018) was a landmark decision in the Security Council’s overall approach to preventing and resolving conflict.”

    2021-03-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2021/250 (2021) · source